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Rasmussen Reports gins up the “does President Obama hate America and love Europe” controversy — which doesn’t seem to be, er, denting Obama’s improving poll numbers — by asking whether Americans think they’ve been too arrogant with Europe. Surprise!
Thirty-seven percent of American voters agree that in dealing with its European allies over the years, the [...]

Last year, the Obama campaign promised to deliver a major speech on U.S.-Muslim relations in a Muslim capital during the president’s first year in office. Today, President Obama fulfills that promise by addressing the Turkish parliament. It’s a clever, multi-layered statement: Obama visits a capital in a majority-Muslim country as part of his first overseas [...]

What’s in store for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke at tomorrow’s United Nations conference on Afghanistan at The Hague? And for Thursday’s NATO summit in Strasbourg, which President Obama will address? Empty promises, dashed hopes and lowered expectations, according to this preview from The Wall Street Journal:
Michele Flournoy, a [...]

Foreign Policy magazine’s Website hosts an interesting blog written by GOP foreign policy luminaries and Bush administration veterans called Shadow Government, which bills itself as featuring “notes from the loyal opposition.” It’s a good blog, filled with often-insightful critiques of President Obama’s emerging foreign policy from the right, as well as intellectually honest reconsiderations of [...]

The overwhelming reaction in Europe to the election of Sen. Barack Obama has been one of enthusiasm and support. Yet a scan of the European press also reveals some peculiar — and some deplorable — responses.
Der Spiegel reports on the shock that has rippled through the German-speaking world after Klaus Emmerich, the “Wolf Blitzer of [...]

The editor of the London Arabic-language newspaper Al Quds Al Arabi, Abdel Bari Atwan, all but begs us not to overlook Al Qaeda’s increasing hold over North Africa.
In Algeria, Al Qaeda in 2006 formally merged with the Algerian Salafist group known as the GPSC to form Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. The “next generation” [...]

When an economic bailout gets political, all bets are off. Look what happened when the German banking system melted down during the Weimar Republic in 1931.

The presidential race may be a dead heat here in the United States. Across the globe, however, it’s a landslide for Sen. Barack Obama.
Two extensive international polls show the Democratic nominee with far more popular support than Sen. John McCain in a wide array of countries around the world.
One poll, released by the BBC on [...]